The Cadence Academic Network helps build strong relationships between academia and industry, and promotes the proliferation of leading-edge technologies and methodologies at universities renowned for their engineering and design excellence.

A huge knowledge exchange platform for academia to network with industry. We are looking for academic speakers to talk about their research to the industry attendees at the Academic Track at CDNLive EMEA and Silicon Valley.

Tackling Complexity at the System-to-Silicon Verification Summit

System-to-silicon
verification is the biggest challenge our industry faces today. It's also the
biggest opportunity for both design teams and EDA vendors.

Consider
the productivity and time-to-market improvements that we could yield in the
coming years if everything goes according to plan. (In fact, it has to if we're going to cut the ratio of engineers per million gates-designed four fold in the next eight years as predicted by the ITRS roadmap). Verification remains the
biggest chunk of the design process, but new technologies and methodologies are
conspiring to whittle that down.

Relentless Complexity

At
the same time, customer needs are getting more complex (see image, right, of major system and SoC development tasks
). No longer are we
focused solely on computing and communications-infrastructure devices. There's
a burgeoning new world of consumer electronics and mobile devices that demand
high performance with miserly power consumption in tiny footprints to satisfy
consumer tastes. Think Google Glass. Think the Pebble watch.

But
then there's also the relentless innovation in larger systems: medical devices,
games platforms, electric vehicles, and electric smart grid utility
infrastructure and display technology.

New
markets pop-up all the time and the rate of change has never been faster. Take automotive
electronics for example: 15 million cars are produced every year, and in-vehicle
networks have 10-100 end points. More than 100 million tablets ship every year,
and millions more smart phones. And the then there's the Internet of Things: The
total available market for this staggeringly huge machine-to-machine world is
estimated to be in the trillions of units in the coming decade.